Artillery Row
The art of introspection
This gathering of Van Gogh’s self-portraits is as unsettling as it is impressive
Alexander Scriabin: Mazurkas (Hyperion)
Rediscovering the patriarch of Russian piano composition
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
More human than the humanists
Church attendance is on the rise among non-Christian, non-believing millennials
Murders for the start of February
A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel
Drop your weapons
Knives Out deserves a reprieve from the dread of bad sequels
Watching alone
How the internet killed pop culture
The Critic Books Podcast: Marianne Moore
In conversation with Heather Cass White: Moore’s editor
The rise of the bimbo
Being intentionally thick is not a feminist act
Too stupid for the truth
Lying to the public “for their own good” spells the end of democracy
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe